It’s A Wonderful Life (NBC, Saturday) – The annual airing of the Jimmy Stewart classic always marks the start of the holiday season for me. BONUS CHRISTMAS NOTE: As I noted on Tumblr today, in the song “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,” it kinda sounds like she’s saying “Later we’ll have some f-ckin’ pie” instead of “Later we’ll have some pumpkin pie.” You’ll never be able to hear it the other way now. Happy holidays!

Game of Your Life (NBC, Friday) – Some TV movie about a kid who plays video games. I got seven words for you, NBC: The Wizard starring Fred Savage or GTFO.

Pan Am (ABC, Sunday) – Ashley Greene guests. I have literally never seen Ashley Greene act. I just know she is very pretty and often walks around Hollywood in yoga pants. In 10 years, that will be its own career. I support this form of outside the box job creation wholeheartedly.

Hell on Wheels (AMC, Sunday) – This week’s episode of the railroad drama is titled “Bread and Circuses,” which would be a great name for an album. Perhaps even by a band named Railroad Drama. There you go, crappy musicians. That’s a freebie.

Neverland (Syfy, Sunday) – Part one of Syfy’s two-part Peter Pan prequel. I had no idea there were MegaSharktopusoraptors in Pan lore.

Boardwalk Empire (HBO, Sunday) – If you watch this show, I can’t recommend strongly enough that you follow @PazDeLaH on Twitter. It’s a terribly profane parody account that mishmashes Paz de la Huerta with her character on the show, misspelling everything and graphically discussing sex and drunken shenanigans. It is a treat.

Virgin Diaries (TLC, Sunday) – Listed only to link to this post again, featuring the greatest and most romantic kiss in the history of lips and desire.

After the jump, the video for “I’m a Slave 4 U” by Britney Spears, because today is her 30th birthday and I love her and I have editorial authority now so I can post what I damn well please.

Woah woah woah, you’re getting ahead of yourself here, Danger: clearly you should have posted “Lucky,” Britney’s best song, over “I’m a Slave 4 U.” I would have embedd the you-know-what of it, then her.

GD it, Buscemi. Does anyone really give a shit about hosting SNL anymore? Or do they just strive to get through it? Melissa Fucking McCarthy. I don’t watch Mike & Molly but I’ll always have an overall positive opinion of her simply for her efforts on lame ass SNL.

The worst thing that ever happened was NBC buying the rights to It’s A Wonderful Life. It used to be that the movie would play 40 times over the course of a month and a half because it was imminent domain and anybody could run it. I’ve seen the whole movie a dozen times. I’ve seen the last half hour a thousand times. Now, you have an entire generation of people who will never have seen this movie – let alone the ending – because it is on once a year on the fourth-place network. Another reason NBC sucks.